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In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, mneet Walt Silva and Jessica Arreola. Their stories demonstrate the positive impact of a diverse workforce, and their perspective is vital to the Success of NASA's Quesst mission. They are part of the crew on a mission to transform aviation as NASA and communities work together to verify that the X-59's quiet, supersonic design can turn a sonic boom into a sonic thump. This new technology, along with a potential change in regulations, wilI allow airliners to fly faster over land, cutting passenger travel time in half without disturbing people on the ground.

Aboard the International Space Station, Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev handed over command of the space station to ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen duringa change of command ceremony September 26. Prokopyev and Mogensen are in the midst of long-duration missions living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration missions.

Tracking a mission's historic returrn to Earth, a year of science onboard the space station, and the safe arrival of the station's newest resident astronaut... a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA!

OSIRIS-REx is NASA's first asteroid sample return mission. It launched in September 2016 on a journey to explore a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu. In October 2020, the spacecraft ventured to the asteroid's surface and collected about 250 grams of material for delivery to Earth. The mission's thrilling finale will take place on September 24, 2023, as OSIRIS-REX releases a capsule containing the Bernnu samples for touchdown in the Utah desert.

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio of NASA answered questions and discussed his record-breaking mission with media on Sept. 19. Rubio is in the midst of a record setting long duration science mission living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies. When Rubio returns to Earth on Sept. 27 he will have spent a total of 371 days in space—the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut. Research missions such as Rubio’s benefits people on Earth and lays the groundwork for future human exploration through the agency’s Artemis missions, which will send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future expeditions to Mars.

NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program nurtures visionary ideas from America's innovators and entrepreneurs that could transform future NASA missions with the creation of radically better or entirely new aerospace concepts. NIAC projects study innovative, technically credible, advanced concepts to turn science fiction to science fact.

Sendinga swarm of small satellites into orbit, the first views from our newest storm-watching mission, and making the grade for investing in small business .. a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA!

A new long-duration spaceflight record, our SpaceX Crew-6 mission is back home, and our asteroid sample return mission is on target ... a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA!

Roscosmos cosmonauts 0leg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub and NASA astronaut LoralO' Hara launched on the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft atop a Soyuz 2.1 a rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on September 15. Following a two-orbit rendezvous, the trio docked to the Rassvet module of the International Space Station where they will conduct long-duration missions aboard the orbital outpost.

A commercial resupply mission heads to the space station, a key piece of hardware for a future Moon mission is on the move, and another spacecraft gets ready to spread its wings in deep space .. a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA!

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 69 Flight Engineers Frank Rubio of NASA and Andreas Mogensen of ESA (Europearn Space Agency) answered pre-recorded questions about life and work on the orbiting laboratory during an in-flight event Sept. 13 with students at the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Rubio and Mogensen are in the midst of a science mission living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies. Such research benefits people on Earth and lays the groundwork fornfuture human exploration through the agency's Artemis missions, which will send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future expeditions to Mars.

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz 2.1a rocket that will launch the Soyuz MS-24 crew to the International Space Station rolled out from its integration building to the launch pad Sept. 12 for final preparations. While the roll out took place, members of the Expedition 69-70 crew, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineer Nikolai Chub of Roscosmos and NASA Flight Engineer Loral 0' Hara and their backups, Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Tracy C. Dyson of NASA participated in final prelaunch training activities.

When it comes to space, humans and robots go way back. We rely heavily on our mechanical friends to perform tasks that are too dangerous, difficult, or out of reach for us humans. We're even working on a new generation of robots that will help us explore in advanced and novel ways. Learn more about the CADRE-Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration-project and how this new network of mini rovers could enable future self-guided robotic exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

The Artemis Il astronauts check out their ride to the Moon, practicing post-splashdown recovery operations for Artemis II, and the Webb Space Telescope checks out a record-breaking star .. a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA!

Our Webb Space Telescope captures a cosmic ring, the team behind our upcoming Psyche mission, and the unique thing about a star that was ripped apart by a black hole ... a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA!

This artist's rendering illustrates new findings about a star shredded by a black hole. When a star wanders too close to a black hole, intense tidal forces rip the star apart. In these events, called "tidal disruptions" some of the stellar debris is flung outward at high speed while the rest falls toward the black hole. This causes a distinct X-ray flare that can last for a few years. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Swift Gamma-ray Burst Explorer, and ESA/NASA's XMM-Newton collected different pieces of this astronomical puzzle in a tidal disruption event called ASASSN-14li, which was found in an optical search by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) in November 2014. The event occurred near a supermassive black hole estimated to weigh a few million times the mass of the sun in the center of PGC 043234, a galaxy that lies about 290 million light-years away. Astronomers hope to find more events like ASASSN-14li to test theoretical models about how black holes affect their environments.

Experts from NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource ldentification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission give an overview on the asteroid sample capsule's landing and recovery plans set for Sept. 24, 2023.

Our SpaceX Crew-6 mission safely returns to Earth, the tech demo hitching a ride on our Psyche spacecraft, and studying ancient life on Earth to better understand Mars... a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA!

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 69 Flight Engineers Frank Rubio and Jasmin Moghbeli of NASA answered pre-recorded questions about life and work on the orbiting laboratory during an in-flight event Sept. 7 with students at Dames Ferry Elementary School in Gray, Georgia. Rubio and Moghbeli are in the midst of science missions living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies. Such research benefits people on Earth and lays the groundwork for future human exploration through the agency's Artemis missions, which will send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future expeditions to Mars.

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 69 Flight Engineers Frank Rubio and Jasmin Moghbeli of NASA answered pre-recorded questions about life and work on the orbiting laboratory during an in-flight event Sept. 6 with students at the South Texas Astronomical Society in Olmito, Texas. Rubio and Moghbeli are in the midst of science missions living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies. Such research benefits people on Earth and lays the groundwork for future human exploration through the agency's Artemis missions, which will send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future expeditions to Mars.

This video chronicles solar activity from Aug. 12 to Dec. 22, 2022, as captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). From its orbit in space around Earth, SDO has steadily imaged the Sun in 4K x 4K resolution for nearly 13 years. This information has enabled countless new discoveries about the workings of our closest star and how it influences the solar system. With a triad of instruments, SDO captures an image of the Sun every 0.75 seconds. The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument alone captures images every 12 seconds at 10 different wavelengths of light. This 133-day time lapse showcases photos taken at a wavelength of 17.1 nanometers, which is an extreme-ultraviolet wavelength that shows the Sun's outermost atmospheric layer: the corona. Compiling images taken 108 seconds apart, the movie condenses 133 days, or about four months, of solar observations into 59 minutes. The video shows bright active regions passing across the face of the Sun as it rotates. The Sun rotates approximately once every 27 days. The loops extending above he bright regions are magnetic fields that have trapped hot, glowing plasma. These bright regions are also the source of solar flares, which appear as bright flashes as magnetic fields snap together in a process called magnetic reconnection.

This animation features actual satellite images of the far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, as it crosses between the DSCOVR spacecraft's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) and telescope, and the Earth - one million miles away.

On August 21, 2017, a continent-spanning wave of instruments from home-made pinhole cameras to the most sophisticated telescopes in operation today will be trained on the Eclipse Across America.

In celebration of the 31 st anniversary of the launching of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on April 24, 1990, astronomers aimed the renowned observatory at a brilliant "celebrity star" one of the brightest stars seen in our galaxy, surrounded by a glowing halo of gas and dust.